Sunday - November 04, 2007

Category Image Global Warming Article: Tibet Soon to Melt 


Here is the short article from Reuters about global warming and Tibet:

Moisture has become a luxury in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa where many locals are waking up to nosebleeds in the dry autumn, state media said on Monday as the Himalayan region faces growing threat of global warming.


"As it stands, there is little water component in the air in the Sunlight City which sits at 3,700 meters above sea level, making the weather extremely dry and things flammable," Xinhua news agency quoted the Lhasa Observatory as saying.


"The weather has also caused many Tibetans to wake up to nosebleeds."


The observatory has reported record low humidity in Lhasa since October while most of China's south had rainfall.


Tibet, long regarded as sensitive to the effects of global warming, is heating up faster than anywhere else in the world, state media has said.


Scientists have warned that the warming Qinghai-Tibet plateau will melt glaciers, dry up major Chinese rivers and trigger drought, sandstorms and desertification.

So what is wrong with the doom and gloom article? 

• does the article provide links for the average humidity for Lhasa over the last 75 years?
• does the article provide links for the average rain fall?
• does the article provide links for the average temperature?
• is the Lhasa Observatory legitimate and why should I believe it?
• are nosebleeds really more prevalent this year compared to past years? Does anyone really even measure such thing?

Posted: Sunday - November 04, 2007 at 11:14 PM
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